A winner of the Silver Dagger Award. Eva cuts a swathe through London low-life. Big, ugly and irresistible, she's a female wrestler with criminal tendencies and large pectorals. When she's not working the sleazy wrestling circuit, she's a security guard living in a breaker's yard.
Street-smart, fast-talking British private eye Anna Lee becomes caught up in a case involving a mob-style execution and a drugged teenaged runaway. Reprint. NYT.
A year ago, Eva Wylie was the biggest, meanest, ugliest female wrestler to disgrace the ring. Her name was on posters. People recognized her on the street. But having been barred from the ring, she's back at the bottom, reduced to guarding rich people's cars and dreaming of yesterday's triumphs.
The 4th Classic Anna Lee MysteryA highly gifted child of chilly, creepy parents disappears. They hire Anna Lee to find her."Anna Lee is doubly unputdownable, by caustic yet tender temperament and as the hub of whirling good fictions." The Sunday Times"Liza Cody is one of our most inventive crime writers." Punch
Anna quit the London police force because it was a dead end for women, but her job with Brierly Security isn?t a whole lot livelier. Her boss doesn?t much approve of female investigators and her assignments tend toward the frustratingly genteel. The Jackson case doesn?t look like a big improvement. Ambitious, unpleasant young Deirdre Jackson has died, the apparent victim of a car accident on a lonely stretch of highway, and her parents want to know what their black-sheep daughter was up to in her last few months. Anna's job, she knows, is to ask a few questions, write a report, and collect the Jacksons? check. But the more questions she asks about Dee's life, the more questions arise about her death. Answering them could land Anna in the hospital . . . or the morgue. But it could also be her ticket out of the pink-collar ghetto.
Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. 'I didn't always look like this, ' she says. Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid. Lady Bag does have her problems, her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When she's extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense. She and her rescue greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city that's visible only to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness and unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery
Innovative and cutting-edge, this collection features Liza Cody's crime stories written between 2003 and 2021, showcasing her unique storytelling style. Among the tales, two are making their English debut, adding fresh perspectives to the genre.
"Borderland Apocrypha is centered around the collective histories of Mexican lynchings following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the subsequent erasures, traumas, and state-sanctioned violences committed towards communities of color in the present day. Cody's debut collection responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories via an experimental poetic that invents and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book's axis in a resistance, a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. Part autohistoria, part docupoetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha exhumes the past in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and future- building"--
Hannah, a disgraced former cop, struggles to make ends meet as a burger-flipper in South London, where she’s notably bad at her job. However, her ambition to become a private investigator drives her to take on any case, no matter how small. As she navigates her new path, her determination and skills may reveal that there's more to her than meets the eye, setting the stage for intriguing investigations and personal growth.
While training for the British women's heavyweight wrestling championship, Eva Wylie gets a call for help from an old friend. A killer is stalking East End prostitutes and the police are dragging their feet. Agreeing to teach the girls self-defense, Eva has other plans to protect them--including giving a cold-blooded killer a dose of her special justice.
